PowerShell Job Trends in Edinburgh

Windows PowerShell
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring PowerShell skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 68 80
Rank change year-on-year +40 +12 -5
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 97 27 31
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 8.98% 2.45% 2.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.75% 5.66% 6.07%
Number of salaries quoted 20 15 27
10th Percentile - £42,500 £46,335
25th Percentile £37,000 £47,000 £50,144
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% +15.38% +12.44%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £80,000
90th Percentile - - £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -4.35%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

PowerShell falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 446 477 511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 41.30% 43.28% 46.97%
Number of salaries quoted 168 247 413
10th Percentile £28,000 £39,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £34,625 £45,000 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,431 £75,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £88,750 £91,661 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £55,498 £55,000 £59,763
% change year-on-year +0.91% -7.97% +3.38%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PowerShell relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

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Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PowerShell

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Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 19 January 2026.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in Edinburgh

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Job Locations in Edinburgh

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PowerShell within the Edinburgh region over the 6 months to 19 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Balerno - 1 - -
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Scotland

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (10.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (9.28%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.03%) CICS
3 1 (1.03%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (8.25%) Workday HCM
2 4 (4.12%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 78 (80.41%) Azure
2 37 (38.14%) Azure DevOps
3 36 (37.11%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (31.96%) Entra ID
5 27 (27.84%) dbt
5 27 (27.84%) Snowflake
6 19 (19.59%) Azure Key Vault
7 16 (16.49%) Azure Data Factory
8 11 (11.34%) GitHub
9 10 (10.31%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (8.25%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (8.25%) Boomi
10 8 (8.25%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (8.25%) Mimecast
10 8 (8.25%) SaaS
11 7 (7.22%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (4.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (4.12%) AWS
12 4 (4.12%) Azure App Service
12 4 (4.12%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.25%) Firewall
1 8 (8.25%) Telnet
2 4 (4.12%) BGP
2 4 (4.12%) DNS
2 4 (4.12%) LAN
2 4 (4.12%) MPLS
2 4 (4.12%) VPN
2 4 (4.12%) WAN
2 4 (4.12%) Wireless
3 3 (3.09%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (1.03%) Broadband
4 1 (1.03%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.03%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.49%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.03%) DB2
Development Applications
1 20 (20.62%) JIRA
2 7 (7.22%) Jenkins
General
1 81 (83.51%) Finance
2 13 (13.40%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (13.40%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.25%) Front Office
4 1 (1.03%) Games
4 1 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (32.99%) Senior
2 23 (23.71%) Azure Engineer
3 11 (11.34%) Applications Engineer
4 8 (8.25%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 8 (8.25%) Platform Specialist
5 7 (7.22%) Security Engineer
6 6 (6.19%) 3rd Line Support
6 6 (6.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) Applications Support
7 4 (4.12%) Applications Support Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) Support Engineer
8 3 (3.09%) Lead
8 3 (3.09%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.37%) GraphQL
1 12 (12.37%) OAuth
2 11 (11.34%) OpenAPI
2 11 (11.34%) Swagger
3 9 (9.28%) REST
3 9 (9.28%) SAML
3 9 (9.28%) SOAP
4 8 (8.25%) FIX Protocol
4 8 (8.25%) Web Services
4 8 (8.25%) YAML
5 1 (1.03%) LDAP
5 1 (1.03%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 39 (40.21%) Product Ownership
2 9 (9.28%) Security Posture
3 8 (8.25%) Equities
3 8 (8.25%) Fixed Income
4 5 (5.15%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (4.12%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.12%) Data Centre
5 4 (4.12%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.06%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.06%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.06%) Robotics
6 2 (2.06%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.03%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.03%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.03%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 30 (30.93%) Windows
2 15 (15.46%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.12%) VMS
4 3 (3.09%) Linux
5 2 (2.06%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.03%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (77.32%) Asset Management
2 73 (75.26%) Coaching
3 61 (62.89%) Agile
4 54 (55.67%) DevOps
5 49 (50.52%) Roadmaps
6 43 (44.33%) ITIL
7 41 (42.27%) Infrastructure as Code
8 36 (37.11%) CI/CD
9 34 (35.05%) Continuous Improvement
10 30 (30.93%) AI
11 28 (28.87%) Problem-Solving
12 26 (26.80%) Analytics
12 26 (26.80%) FinOps
12 26 (26.80%) Machine Learning
12 26 (26.80%) Mentoring
12 26 (26.80%) Technology Roadmap
13 18 (18.56%) Information Security
14 12 (12.37%) Cybersecurity
14 12 (12.37%) Data Modelling
14 12 (12.37%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 55 (56.70%) Python
2 39 (40.21%) SQL
3 26 (26.80%) Bash
4 11 (11.34%) C#
5 8 (8.25%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.12%) Bicep
7 1 (1.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (7.22%) CISSP
1 7 (7.22%) CREST Certified
1 7 (7.22%) SANS
2 3 (3.09%) Degree
3 2 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.06%) CCNA
3 2 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.06%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.06%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.03%) CEH
4 1 (1.03%) GIAC
4 1 (1.03%) GREM
4 1 (1.03%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (19.59%) Accessibility
2 10 (10.31%) GDPR
3 1 (1.03%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.03%) NCSC
3 1 (1.03%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (18.56%) Virtual Desktop
2 15 (15.46%) Active Directory
3 10 (10.31%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (4.12%) Docker
5 1 (1.03%) RACF
Systems Management
1 50 (51.55%) Terraform
2 20 (20.62%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (8.25%) SCCM
3 8 (8.25%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (7.22%) Ansible
5 5 (5.15%) Grafana
6 4 (4.12%) Kubernetes
6 4 (4.12%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.03%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 1 (1.03%) Forefront Identity Manager
7 1 (1.03%) QRadar
Vendors
1 53 (54.64%) Microsoft
2 14 (14.43%) ServiceNow
3 8 (8.25%) Charles River
3 8 (8.25%) Cisco
3 8 (8.25%) MuleSoft
3 8 (8.25%) Workday
4 6 (6.19%) Splunk
5 5 (5.15%) IBM
6 4 (4.12%) Ab Initio
6 4 (4.12%) F5
6 4 (4.12%) Fortinet
6 4 (4.12%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.03%) Broadcom
7 1 (1.03%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (1.03%) Proofpoint